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After two seasons at Seton Hall, touring the East Coast and playing against some of the best college basketball teams in the country, Dalton Soffer is coming home.
The 6-foot-6 shooting guard, who was a second-team All-San Diego Section pick as a...

Forgive fans if they yawned when USD first baseman Roman Garcia hit a fourth-inning home run off the scoreboard in left-center field at Fowler Park.
It’s been done.
And, after all, everyone had witnessed something three innings earlier that had...

San Diego State and USD are co-hosting the second annual Tony Gwynn Classic, a seven-team tournament that includes teams from across the nation.
The tournament is Thursday through Saturday, moved up a day because of rain forecast for Sunday.
...

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Shooting guard Eron Gordon has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Seton Hall.
Pirates coach Kevin Willard announced the signing on Wednesday, about a week after guard Isaiah Whitehead said he was leaving the program...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Hackimer zips pitches past batters with a deceptive sidearm delivery that has thoroughly dominated college baseball this season.
A converted shortstop who never pitched in high school, the stingy St. John's University senior is one...

NEW YORK (AP) — National champion Villanova will visit Purdue on Nov. 14 in the opening game of the second annual Gavitt Tipoff Games.
The event will have eight games between members of the Big East and Big Ten to be played Nov. 14-18, the conferences...

NEW YORK (AP) — A few weeks back, Mike Lonergan's buddy sent him a basketball net. The message was pure motivation: cut one down in March.
With a victory over Valparaiso in the National Invitation Tournament championship game Thursday night, the George...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Robert Morris coach Sal Buscaglia is hoping for a less than symmetrical ending to his coaching career when his Colonials face top-ranked UConn on Saturday.
Buscaglia, who plans to retire at the end of the season, lost his first...

DENVER (AP) — Isaiah Whitehead's scoring spree couldn't have ended at a worse time.
The Seton Hall sophomore, who scored 70 points in three games to lift the Pirates to the Big East title, couldn't find the basket Thursday night in a 68-52 loss to...

DENVER (AP) — Two losses in the span of three games can send the world off its axis at Gonzaga.
That was February. This is March.
Not only did the Zags make their 18th straight NCAA Tournament, they're moving on, thanks to a pullaway 68-52 victory...

One 12 seed got its first NCAA Tournament win in program history. Another staged a huge comeback then hung on for a double-overtime victory. An 11 seed also pulled an upset, and, as usual, the No. 1 seeds have so far assured themselves a spot in the...

10:10 p.m.
In 16 games on Thursday to start the NCAA Tournament, seven lower-seeded teams win.
March Madness, indeed.
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Gonzaga is moving on in the NCAA Tournament after pulling away from Seton Hall for a 68-52 victory Thursday...

The Latest on the first full day of the men's NCAA Tournament, including games being played in Providence, Rhode Island, Raleigh, North Carolina, Des Moines, Iowa and Denver. (All times EDT):
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In 16 games on Thursday to start the NCAA...

DENVER (AP) — Maybe the most telling part of Derrick Gordon's story is that it hasn't really been a story this season.
When sixth-seeded Seton Hall (25-8) takes the court Thursday against Gonzaga (26-7), Gordon will become the first openly gay player...

College basketball fans thought picking the bracket was tough last season.
Wait til this NCAA Tournament really gets going.
With no clear-cut favorites and seemingly a dozen teams that could take down the nets in Houston, this March could be the...

It doesn't take a lot of skill to pick UConn to win a fourth consecutive national championship.
When filling out the bracket it was easy to start with the Huskies winning the title and work backward. The question remains, who will meet them in the...

Kyle Wiltjer did not allow himself to wonder what Sunday would have been like if Gonzaga wasn't already guaranteed of an 18th straight NCAA Tournament bid.
"I don't want to think about what it would have felt like," Wiltjer said on Sunday night. "We...

A runner-up in the regular season and the ACC tournament, Virginia is still a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
The Cavaliers are also in the same region with an all-too-familiar postseason foe.
Virginia (26-7) is the top team in the Midwest Region,...

NEW YORK (AP) — For all its Big East dominance the past few years, Villanova keeps coming up small in March.
And that's the month that matters in college basketball.
Isaiah Whitehead scored 26 points, including the deciding three-point play with 18...